NPR's Fresh Air Interview with Neil Young and Jonathan Demme

A terrific interview on NPR's Fresh Air was broadcast this afternoon.

Neil Young and Jonathan Demme discuss making the movie Heart of Gold with Terry Gross. The interview is now streaming on listener supported NPR radio.

Interviewer Terry Gross starts with the "miraculously magical backstory" of recording Prairie Wind and Neil suffering a brain aneurysm last year. Gross is incredulous over the sequence of events and asks Neil to verify. Neil proceeds to go into great detail over waking up with his vision blurred as if "looking through shattered glass". An aneurysm shaped like the state of Florida was discovered and the doctors told him surgery was necessary. Neil in typically humorous fashion quips: "Florida had to go!"

Film director Jonathan Demme discusses some of the technical approaches to making the film. Demme describes the relatively static camera work as "avant garde" in this day and age of rapid cutting music videos.

More on "Heart of Gold" premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and the Nashville Ryman Concerts, the album "Prairie Wind", and the song "Heart of Gold", which inspired the film's title.

Also, see sidebar on right for feed updates of film reviews and other news on the film Heart of Gold.